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LXVL RxtraB from the four 7 ^als of the 
Royal Society, June 23, 1768, refpeSUng 
a Letter addrejfed to the Society by a Me?n-‘ 
ber of the Houfe of Jefuits at Pekin m 
China ; by Charles Morton, M. D. Sec. R. S, 
and Fellow of the Imperial Acadd, Natur, 
Curiof ^ Petropol. and of the Royal 
Academy of Gottingen. 
^ letter, the original of which is In the 
i French language, conhfts of 28 pages in clofe 
folio ; to which are fubjoined 44. pages of notes ; and 
27 pages of drawings, to which the letter and notes 
refer for illuftration. 
It relates to fome difquifitions of Mr. Turberville 
Needham, F. R. S. concerning a fuppofed connedfion 
between the hieroglyphical writing of antient Egypt, 
and the charadteriftic writing which is in ufe at this 
day, amongft the Chine fe. 
Divers ot the Society remember Mr. Needham's 
tradl upon this fubjedt, which was printed at Rome in. 
the Latin tongue, 1761, addrelTed to this and the 
Antiquarian Societies. 
This conjedure of Mr. Needham’s, pregnant with 
fo many curious con fequences, engaged the attention 
of the Literati of Europe : the generality wifliing 
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